Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Sunday, May 07, 2017

Lit Hub Weekly

·“I’ve never had much talent for
making things up.” An interview
with Chris Kraus. | The Guardian

·How Western
literature evolved from cold recitations of actions to “stories that
portray minds in all their meandering, many-layered, self-contradictory
complexities.” | Nautilus

·“As France has braced itself for
the possibility of a Le Pen Presidency, Louis’s book has become the subject of
political discussion in a way that novels rarely do.”
Garth Greenwell on Édouard Louis’s novel, The End of Eddy. | The New Yorker